Introduction:

This is a Kindergarten Language Arts lesson, instructing students on rhyming word families. This lesson will focus around the book The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss. The students will be listening to a reading of The Cat in the Hat on YouTube, and then will listen to an explanation of how words rhyme. The students will then be split into five different groups and participate in five different centers, all of which revolve around rhyming word families and The Cat in the Hat.

1. Standards

• RL.K.10 Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding
• RI.K.1 With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text
• RF.K.1 Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print
• RF.K.2 Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds
• RF.K.3. Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words

2. Objectives

• The students will learn about rhyming words and rhyming word families.
• The students will play different games in centers that revolve around rhyming words and The Cat in the Hat

3. Overview

• To begin the lesson, I will ask my students if they have ever been bored. Assuming that they have been bored before, I will then ask what do they do when they are bored. Asking the students these questions activates their schema, and starts getting them to think about different things to do when they are bored. Then I will introduce the book The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss to my students and give them a brief summary of the book.
• Then, I will play a read aloud of The Cat in the Hat on Youtube projected on the SMART Board screen. The reason that I will play the read aloud on YouTube is because it will be a fun way for the students to enjoy about the book. The students are also more likely to pay attention to the read aloud if it is on a screen because it looks like a movie, than if I were to read it from a book. Below I have embedded the YouTube clip of The Cat in the Hat read aloud.

• After the students watch the YouTube clip, I will begin in a conversation about what rhyming words are. I will explain to students that words rhyme based on their word family. For example "cat" rhymes with "hat" because they are both a part of the "at" family, and any consonant that you put in front of "at" will rhyme with each other (cat,hat,bat,sat,fat).
• Then I will give the students a worksheet with five different word families (-at,-ay,-it,-un,-op) that I have created on Microsoft Word. Together, as a class, I will help the students think of different rhymes according to their word family. The students will write the words on the worksheet according to what word family they belong to. I have attached the worksheet below.

• The students will then break up into five groups for centers.
  • Center 1: Cut Out Rhyme Sort: For this center the students will be given a piece of paper that has five different rhyming word families. Then they will be given a paper with twenty-five different words. They will have to cut out the words from the piece of paper and sort the words out based on their word family. I have made the two papers on Microsoft Word, and have attached them below.

• Center 2: Rhyme Time Matching: For this center, the students will be playing a computer game that requires them to pair words together based on how they rhyme. For this game, the students will see eight pictures. They have the option of either clicking on the pictures to hear how they sound and then match them together, or if they are confident enough in themselves they can just match the pictures together based on whether or not they rhyme. Below is a screencast explaining how to play the game.
• Center 3: SMART Board Rhyme Game: For this center, the students will play a game that I have designed on the SMART board. The game will depict several pictures and the students will take turns sorting the pictures into groups based on whether or not they rhyme and their rhyme word family.

• Center 4: Rhyming Worksheet: In this center, the students will be given a work sheet with different pictures on either side of the page. The students will then have to match the rhyming words together by drawing a line to connect them. Then, after they match the words, the students will practice blending by trying spell the what the pictures are. Below is the worksheet.
• Center 5: Rhyme Memory Game: In this center the students will play a memory game with cards. In this game there are about forty cards that will be face down. The students will take turns picking different cards and will attempt to match them based on whether or not they rhyme. If they match the cards, then they keep them, and it is the next persons turn; however, if the cards do not match then they flip the cards over, and it is the next persons turn. The player with the most cards win.
• To close the lesson, I will review rhyming words and rhyming word families with the students. I will make sure that they understand what rhyming words are, and that words rhyme according to their word family.